Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 25

WOMA Fur Lavishly Use BY MARY Much was said six or eight months ago about the return of the furless coat. But one of the most pronounced impressions received by those who at- tended the exhibitions of new clothes for Autumn in Paris was the lavish use of fur.' Dresses are trimmed with fur as they have not been for many seasons. A metallic lace evening frock, for instance, has narrow border trim- THIS SUIT OF HEAVY TWEED IN TONES OF BROWN HAS A FLAT COLLAR OF BEAVER FUR. ming of black broadtail and an after- noon froek of light brown of the new woolen lace has trimming of natural- toned beaver. And the way in which fur is used ought to delight the most conserva- tive of furriers, for there is little ten- dency to disguise and distort furs this season. Often the furs are used in their natural colors, or else in the con- ventional tones of brown, black, gray. Fashion no longer seems to be amused with blue moleskin or purple rabbit. Some of the dressmakers here follow N'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1928. d on New Clothes MARSHALL. the rule of using furs of the same tone as the material of the coat or frock. Thus black broadtail or Persian lamb seems to them the smartest thing for black broadcloth. The new grayish tones of blue are best emphasized by gray krimmer or sometimes gray squir- rel and beige krimmer or brown beaver goes with the warm Autumn tones of brown. This return to the appreciation of fine furs may be considered as part of the present reaction against shams and artifices and distortions in_ dress gen- crally, one phase of which is to be observed in the revived interest in pre- cious stones. Mere effectiveness is no longer enough for the woman who formal occasions she may be content with inexpensive costume jewelry, but for important occasions she wears dia- monds, rubies and emeralds if she can afford them. Real laces are appre- clated now as they have not been for years, and the woman of fashion is no longer as content to wear dyed coney as genuine sable, Persian lamb or beaver. Fashion writers make much of what they call the new note of femininity— they have failed to sense the real state of fashion affairs if they have not also noted a decided increase of what may be called “discrimination.” If you have a little daughter I am sure you will want this week's diagram pattern, because it shows just how to |cut and make the new very short | French drawers which are so neces- sary when short frocks are worn. And | little girls' frocks must be short to look | right nowadays. If you would like a (copy of this home dressmaking help, please send me a stamped, self- | addressed envelope and I will send it to you. (Copyright, 1928.) My Neighbor Says: To destroy the odor of smoke put a basin of water in the room, leave it overnight and keep the window slightly open. The air will be quite sweet by morning. White window shades may be successfully cleaned if rubbed with a rough white flannel cloth dipped in flour. Save bits of soap until you have 2 pint, then melt them. To one part add glycerin or oatmeal for toilet use; to the rest add borax or naphtha for laundry use, or finest sea sand for scouring pur- poses. When creaming butter for cake never take it directly out of the ice box. Allow it to stand in the pantry for some time before at- tempting to cream it. It will then cream more quickly and easily. KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH The Fear of Death. As & constant reader of your column I apply to you for advice on & nervous break- down. the incapable of even going to business. An at such times where I did force mysell to 0 down town I could not exert the proper attention due to my illhess. I have sub- mitted to examinations by physicians who were highly recommended. The scvice was to remove all foci of infection. My tonsils were removed, teeth attended to, all but the connecting of a slightly deviated septum, which T was told was not necessary. How- ever. that did not help me. 1 was then ad- i to g0 to a psyel Dln,l!ll. which I did and after four mon of co The nervous breakdown form of palpitation of the heart, acc B3 Jificuity in bresthing: = At om- the as 0o organic heart trou- 1 received a couple of tablets and some water, after which I felt better. I was told it was anxiety neurosis. The following day I received another at- tack, more violent and of longer duraton. After being again ed, 1 was advised o go for a vacation. I joined my wife at stayed there three week: Lakewood, and X However, those attacks persisted at the rate ©f five per day, but less violent and of shorter duration. During the attacks I was com- pelled to lie down. That left me weak and glugeisn. My fear of desth was great, and developed more symptoms, such as a con- striction in the throat when about to swal- Jow. That would invariably start my heart y. e - ind cold beads of Dersp: forehead, and I feel as thoush 1 ale. T associate every one of the symp- toms With death and constant fear of death. In fact, T am in great fear, even when I Write the word, see it. hear it, or am told about some one who died. Whenever 1 go to the vicinity where T/ was formerly employed. which is the mil- | Mnery district, 1 get extremely nervous. am afraid of meeting r‘fl‘\l‘ and discourage visits. am very irritable, violent and offensive (i.e.) I have become so. I am at Present unemployed. and have been out for Tine weeks. My friends are willing to puv me a business. and help me get busi- ness, but T fear to go in business on accoun: f my condition. And, on the other hand, Am" married, have & baby and must ear. money. e me thought almost drives e to distraction, and I fear the worst. 1 am 27 years of age. have weighed 165 pounds, but only weigh 142 now. Any Information concerning my sickness which I have been told by every doctor i. Tervousness will be highly appreciated. | Reply A tale such as this tells its own 3 “Anxiety neurosis” is the mi‘nd-d- s name for it. This is a typical an" acute case. The point of fixation of t¥ * anxie- ty varies; it naturally seeks s~ e justi- fication, and few persons ar: so fortu- nate that they have nothin~ to worry about. But the most comrin severe anxiety concerns health, and of all symptoms the most alarming is palpita- tion, because everybody knows that | heart-faflure takes many victims. The heart is mcde the seat of all emotions, because emotional excitement is so directly felt in terms of the cir- culation. Respiration is equally vital and the nervous side of asthma is well re- cognized. Hay-fever in a measure comes into the picture, because that ‘“calen- dar” regularity with which some of its JASTROW. day—suggests a mental mechanism at work. But all these troubles are real. There are some patients with just a slight irregularity of the heart (and others with the same condition who never give it much thought), who suffer far more from heart anxiety than from any irregularity of the circulation. And there are as many—as in this case— who are pronounced sound of heart but full of nervous anxiety which centers about the “heart” symptoms. Here also there is a spread ot the anxiety so that it may be called “visceral” anxiety; it inyolves breathing and it occurs while eating (digestion), combined with a feeling of choking, a spasm of the swal- | lowing mechanism assoclated both with breathing and eating. ‘Then the associations of the environ- ment come in and the anxiety attacks are more apt to recur when eating at a restaurant, because the first alarming attack occurred there, or even walking in the neighborhood associated with failing health will bring back the at- tacks of anxiety. All this shows how many factors are involved and how close g;mk;n are physical and mental symp- In a similar case the first alarming attack occurred on a Friday evening, the 21st of the month, and for years there was always an added nervousness on md‘:!ys.uéld H:em tzlm. The anxiety cum; i s to a k in w] the victim calls an lttnck.m s loo’{sm:b lf:l‘l ;,Iheflw;y l’:he mind-doctor . He finds here a long con- tinued (chronic) state of !mguggnr an abnormal type (neurasthenia), with some accompanying physical symptoms. Though given a bill of health, the anxiety continues, because to the suffer- er's mind so alarming a sensation must indicate an alarming condition. The problem of the physician is to establish the conviction that these symptoms, upsetting as they are, are the expression of a disordered nervous system and a susceptible one; that with rest, change of scene, a wise way of liv- ing, confidence in the doctor, reliance on family and friends, noting that though the attacks come they also go, and the power to ignore them or accept them increases—with all this persisted In, there will be a slow but sure swing bn;%l to normal. ere will be no miracles, no day-by- day better and better :xpactatlons’,’ b&t ups and downs, slumps and gains, for that is the way of overstrained nerves, yet what has been endured will bs en- dured again, and there is a bit of cheer and relief in the offing. That's the program, and rare is the patient in this condition who can carry it through unaided. He needs some one to lean on, to trust in, to pull him through. These cases, when of long standing, need a specialist who must | add to the equipment of a guide the virtues of a philosopher and the sym- pathies of a friend. That's why mind- | doctoring is the most exacting of victims are affected—they have an an- nual birthday and an annual hay-fever Straight Talks to W humane professions. (Copyright, 1928.) omen About Money, BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. “Don’'t Talk Economy to Me.” A rather vain and foolish woman said to a well meaning friend, “Don't talk economy to me.” The vain woman had attained to some business success, and she felt that her good fortune would have no end. What need of her econ- omizing now—she would always have plenty! Over the desk of one of our most successful merchants hangs this max- im: “Economize in prosperity; in ad- versity it won't matter.” Nothing was ever said that is truer. ‘When we are in modest circum- stances economy is a matter of need. ‘We have limited funds, and they must provide. If we do not eccomize, we shall want. None of us cares to want. So that in adversity, real or compara- tive, we all economize. But how about prosperity? of us look beyond the present—a happy present, to be sure! Good fortune in- fects us with an optimism that is some- times blind. If your husband’s business has begun to prosper, if he has won promotion to 2 well paid position, if your own in- come has been augmented in some way, or whatever has happened, there seems to be no end. Good things one feels— or, more accurately, “hopes”—will con- | tinue indefinitely. Why economize now? ‘That is the philosophy underi; those who are thriftless in prosperity Now, reflect. heard about this or that family straits? “This or that family” merly was well-to-do or somfortably How often have ycu in for- | nervous energy. situated. Then the “break” came. It matters little what the break consisted of. It means in each case the break in good fortune, The family was left without anything. ‘That story is repeated week in and week out in every city of which we know. Probably in cach case a well| meaning friend would have been told, “Don't talk economy to us. We are well off, and economy is for those who | have little and want much.” | Econcmy, which simply means intel- { ligent, thoughtful living and spending, | not necessarily frugelity or niggardi- Iness, has its place in the life of the poor, the rich and all others. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say “I will be there if you shall.” Say “I | ehall be there if you will.” | _Often mispronounced: Quotient. | Pronounce last syllable shent, not shunt nor shi-ent. Often misspelled: Gnerl; note the Synonyms: Impertinent, y, rude, disrespectful. mpudent, and it is yours.” Let uvs increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word, Sinew; strongth; “He possessed the !sinew of young manhood.” aspires to the new “elegance.” = For in- ¢ study: “Use a word three times The STYLE POST is the marker on the road to being smart. Flat Pouch. The pouch has gone on a diet. It can't be bulgy and fashionable at the same time. But the pouch style of bag can imitate closely the flatness of the envelope and yet have an amazing ca- pacity. The tailored appearance of this one is completed by a band for the mono- gram or initials—plain-spoken ones of generous size. Smooth calfskin makes such a bag good for the hard wear of daily usage. NANCY PAGE There Never Was Such Pumpkin Pie. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. When Nancy looked over the food bills for the month of September she found she had been most economical. She felt that she could splurge and do a little entertaining in October. She wanted to give a dinner for Peter, wanted to have a Halloween party, and she particularly wanted to try a new recipe she had been given for pumpkin ple. It is not a poor man’s pie. But, as Nancy said, “How can you expect foods to taste good if the ingredients are not rich in the fifst place?” These ingredients were rich, but the pie—oh, my! Peter proclaimed it the best he ever had eaten, and he was a connois- seur in pumpkin pie. Two cupfuls stewed pumpkin puree, two cupfuls sweet cream, three-quar- ters cupful granulated sugar, three eggs, one-quarter tablespoonful ground nut- meg, one-quarter tablespoonful cinna- mon, salt. Nancy used the canned pumpkin. To it she added the cream, the sugar mixed with spices and salt. She put the mixture through a fine sieve. Then she added the eggs. First she beat the whites until they were stiff, put in yolks and beat again. This frothy, yellow mass was put in with the pumpkin. She lined a pie plate with crust, built up a high rim, put the pumpkin mixture in and baked the pie. Bhe started with a hot oven to set the crust, and lowered it at the end of five minutes, so that the custard mixture would not cook too fast. Nancy is making plans for a Halloween party =~ Are vour ' Write to Nancy Page. care of this paper, inclosing stamped. gelf- addressed envelope, asking for her Hallow- een leafiet. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, October 7. ‘Tomorrow will be a day of mingled good and evil planetary influences, ac- cording to astrology. It is a first-rate sway for churchgoing and for kindly deeds. Although there is a sign making for disorder of thought and action, the mind should be receptive to religlous suggestion. New leaders of thought again are prognosticated, and among them will be several who gain immense followings. | Extreme Eastern and extreme Western cities will become fields for reform work of tremendous scope, astrologers foretell. Interest in the building of new churches and cathedrals is to be keen in the coming months, when there is to be a great spiritual awakening among the people. The seers declare that tremendous upheavals of public opinion will take place along lines not generally ex- pected. Again they predict many sur- prises in the progress of the American people, who are to enjoy continued prosperity and to experience immense changes. A London astrologer predicts that the position of Uranus and Mars will cause sudden revolutions and changes of government on the continent. Mili- tary dictatorships again are prognosti- cated. Windstorms that will do damage in northeastern States are foretold for this country. Alaska also will suffer from severe storms. Preachers and actors are warned tha’ there is a planetary aspect which will cause the public to be critical re- garding the use of the human voice. The next fashionable fad will concern cpzech, which will be cultivated as as- siduously as leanness has been in the past, astrologers foretell. In the next few months aggregations of capital greater than any ever pre- viously mobilized will be represented in combinations of business interests, it is forecast. American wealth is to increase in volume to an extent that has never been dreamed of in former times, the stars indicate, and the next quarter century is to develon tremendous world problems that are economic. There is an aspect that is read as favoring the wearing of new clothing, especially if it is of rich material. rsons whose birth date it is have the augury of pleasure journeys in the next year of their lives. These sub- {Jects of Virgo who are in the second |or fourth dacade may expect romance. Chiidren born on that day probably will be keen and sensitive. They are lkely to manifest unusual talents and to be able to reach suprem> success through them. Both boys and girls have many friends and admirers, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How the Wife Who Made to Return EAR MISS DIX: change, Can I change myself? best of them. rarely look at marriage from the same interests and plans and thoughts. this, but if the average man were to put needs rest and change, and he doesn't to discuss abstruse subjects. or has any interest in her interests. there 1s no quicker way to drive a man he seizes his hat and departs, never to interested in your husband than he is aliuring angle. was never finished. DE treated the child as a mother should, she is not ready yet. support. I still love my wife. support herself. Except for the child, real affection for you. life, quit cold, and rush to the divorce poor men are forced to pay them. leaves him. EAR MISS DIX: .. come home for dinner I have to cook it. Answer: ‘would beat it while the going was good ones they marry. Nearly all women marry to get companionship. forward to being all-in-all to their husbands, to sharing in their husbands’ Answer: The remedy is in your own hands. the alimony, and your wife will come back to you rather than go to work and (Copyright, 1928.) Wise Observations on the Nature of Husbands. Is a Quitter May Be to Her Husband. I have been married 16 years to a very intelligent and successful man. He is generous, kind and devoted to me, but I am nothing but a plaything to him. He shuts me entirely out of his intellectual life and | takes no interest in my serious pursuits. talk to him about the things that I really think about mystlfé In fact, it bores him when I try to He will never AYTHING. Answer: ‘The only hope for you is to acquire that philosophy that all women must learn after marriage, unless they find matrimony a total loss. And this consists in making up their minds to take their husbands as they are, individual eccentricities of temperament, faults and all, included, and make the First of all, write this down in your little book: That men and women very | angle, or desire the same thing from the They look But very few men really want a wife to be a companion. They want a wife who will make them comfortable and amuse them. Of course, men won't admit into two words his definition of a perfect wife it would be a combination cook and toy. Very few men want to discuss anything seriously with a woman, even with their own wives, and that is why the fluffy-headed little flappers and vamps and the gold-diggers and the baby dolis and the women who are frankly playthings can not only marry all around the clever, intellectual women, but can snare away the husbands of sober-minded, helpful wives from them. Nor is this quite as silly as it sounds. Every man who amounts to anything gives to his work every b.. of intelligence, every ounce of brain power that is in him, and when he comes home at night he is mentally fagged out. His mind want to exert it by holding intellectual conversations with his wife, or be forced.to rally all of his mental faculties again He wants idle, frivolous, amusing gossip instead of a discussion of the Einstein theory. And if he doesn’t want o talk about his work, it isn’t that he doesn’t want his wife to know what he is doing, or that he doesn’t think her capable of understanding the ramifications ot his business. doesn’t want to go over again all of the anxieties and annoyances of the day. He wants to forget them and give his taut nerves a chance to relax. It is just because he Also, while a wife desires to enter into her husband’s interests, and to know what he thinks, not one man in 10,000 ever wants to know what a woman thinks The first wisdom tooth a woman ever cuts, she cuts on the hard fact that away than to talk to him about herself. The minute she begins to vivisect her emotions and her complexes and reactions, return. So, my dear lady, you will just have to accept the fact that you are more in you, and that if he wants to make a plaything of you, your cue is to be a toy which will always have some new and Don't forget the story of Scheherazade, who kept her own head and held her husband by telling him a story that entertained and amused him, and that DOROTHY DIX. AR MISS DIX: Six years ago I married a young girl, 20 years my junior, and we were ideally happy until after our baby came. But my wife never and this state of affairs caused many quarrels that finally ended in divorce, my wife leaving me, although I have always been a model husband and a splenaid provider. My wife now says that she intends to come back and remarry me some time, but when I try to get her to say when, she keeps putting me off, saying I make a very generous allowance for her and the child’s I long for a home and would do anything to have my child. Is there anything I can do to hasten my wife’s return to me? PERPLEXED HUSBAND. All you have:to do is to stop you would be well rid of a woman who has so little sense of her duty as a wife and mother, and who evidently has no ‘Your wife belongs to that large class of women who regard matrimony as a graft, and who, as soon as they are called upon to give as well as take in married courts with trumped-up charges against their husbands and thereafter live in ease and luxury on the alimony that the It is right and just that a woman Who has given the best years of her life to her husband, and in helping him build up his business, should receive alimony if he deserts her and is untrue to her and 1orces her to leave her home. those cases where the wife is a quitter, and where she never tries to do her duty, it is unjust that a man should have to continue supporting her after she But in DOROTHY DIX. .. I have been married six weeks and am sick and tired of my wife already. She won't get my breakfast in the morning, and when I She is lazy and slovenly and jealous, and opens my letters and reads them, but when I tell her I am going to leave her she puts her arms around my neck and cries like a baby. What would you do? AN UNHAPPY HUSBAND. Well, if I had an able-bodied young wife and she wouldn't cook my meals, nor keep the house clean, nor make herself neat and attractive, I DOROTHY DIX. he Daily Cross-Word Puzzle «Copyright, 1923.) 1. Very fine. 8. High priest of Israel. 9. Arm of the ocean. 10. Insect. 12. A State (ab.). 13. Siberian gulf. Act. Hewing tool. 17, Engineering degree (ab.). 18. Ourselves. 19. Two (Roman). 20. Street (ab.). 21. Made a mistake. 23. Small tree. 25. Lake in Western U. 8. 29. Mentioned. 32. Sflver (ab.). 33. Man’s nickname. 34. International language. 35. Note of the scale. 36. Internal Revenue (ab.). 37. Isle near La Rochelle. 38. Like. 39. Pronoun. 40. Born. 42, Floor cover. 44, Western Indian. 45. Locomotive drivers. Down. 1. Church official. 2. Eleven (Roman ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE > ol x| T 'EI m £ = o o« O|2|> mim{n . Southern State (ab) . Anclent country. . Observe carefully (ab.). . Annoy. . Amuse. . Deliver . Be in debt. Lubricate. Cheer. . Tiny point. . Be in accord. . Paddle. . Resinous kind of drug. . Packing box. . Ancient isle. . Sends forth. . Prefix: Into. . Indefinite article. . Chaldean city. s Apple Pie. Core and pare about six tart cooking apples and cut them in slices or circles. Line a deep pie tin with pastry and pack the apples carefully so that the cover will fit. Sprinkle with one- fourth teaspoonful of salt mixed with a little cinnamon and three-fourths cupful of sugar, and dot with two table- spoonfuls of butter. Place on the upper crust after moistening the lower edge, and press the edges together to hold in the juices. Cut a_slit to allow the steam to escape. Bake for about 30 minutes in a hot oven, or until the | opples are tender. . Hot Kraut. Cook half an onion chopped in one tablespoonful of dripping. Add one medium-sized head of cabbage sliced fine, half a cupful of vinegar, one and one-half cupfu's of hot water, two teaspoonfuls of salt and one-fourth | SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. If fleas is any worse 'an ’ese half- heavies, Nippy, I feel sorry fer yer, old feller! (Coyrizht. 1928.) AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. I have been forced to admit on some occasions that Spring in Europe, at least in certain places, is a more delightful, a more entrancing season than _in America north of North Carolina. But in Autumn we really yield the palms to nobody; or rather, the Mediterranean may keep its palms, aye, and its laurels, and Germany can have her tan-colored linden leaves, and France her brown horse-chestnut, and England her sear elms; but even the maples of Europe can lay no claim to beauty such as ours. Now the maple leaves begin to turn. In the streets of New England villages they are already clear gold and scarlet, crimson and orange, and are drifting to the sidewalks and roads. With us they hang yet on the trees—frail ban- ners of autumnal glory that the rude winds will tear down. The tulip tree, perhaps my favorite of Autumn color- ation, is a bronze gold. There is nothing in the world more beautiful than a great tulip tree, standing motionless on a Virginia hillside in the long, late light of an Autumn afternoon, every blade reflecting glory. But in city streets the oak is best at just this time of year. There are just two other places in the world where you will see scarlets and crimsons as deep, as glowing with some inner fire, in all the world, and these two places are the lancet windows of the Church of Sainte Chapelle in Paris and a single spot in one window of Chartres Cathedral, where a chalice glows. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Personal Property. One mother says: I teach my small daughter to keep out of my dressing table by showing her the same courtesy in regard to her own little bureau. “Shall I put your clean handker- chiefs in your drawer, or do you want to do this?” I inquire. And “May I borrow a pencil from your writing ta- ble?” I do not go ahead and seize her things if she is at home and can give them to me or grant permission. These are simple matters, seemingly, but they result in pleasant relations re- garding personal possessions. (Copyright, 1928.) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 6, 1855.—The subject of the annexation of Georgetown to the City of Washington is being agitated in the former place, according to reports re- ceived today, following a meeting of the Georgetown City Councils last night. Although the matter has not yet been brought officially before the authorities, it is learned that such a project would meet with very decided approbation and support from the leading business men on the west side of Rock Creek. The recent talk of a retrocession of Georgetown to the State of Maryland seems to have died down completely. A proclamation by President Plerce, recognizing Giuseppe Bertinotti as con- sul general of Sardinia to the United States, with residence in New York, was made public here today. The President declares that Bertinotti is “free to exercise and enjoy such func- tions, powers and privileges as are al- lowed to the consuls general of the most favored nations in the United States.” The usual large number of strangers who flock to Washington every Autumn and during the Winter sessions of Con- gress is expected this year, and prepara- tions are being made by local hotels and boarding houses to entertain them. The National Hotel, it was announced | today, will reopen day after tomorrow after being completely refitted and re- furnished in all of its multifarious de- partments, It will be in charge of a new manager, Mr. Guy, who has long been famous as one of the leading caterers of Baltimore. This hotel is so altered in appearance as to be hardly recognizable by its former patrons. The board of directors of the Wash- ington Philharmonic Society, in com- pliance with a generally expressed wish, has decided to give public rehearsals monthly during the coming Winter, ac- cording to an announcement made today. The large room in Temperance Hall has been obtained for the pu The board also decided to place the price of admission at such a low rate as to be within the means of every one who has “music in his soul.” It will be 25 cents for a single concert and $1 for the series. This society comprises a large num- ber of able and talented vocalists of Washington. Their performances will consist of selections from the most popular operas and best authors, ac- companied on the pianoforte by Prof. Foertsch, introducing a great variety of solos, duets, choruses, etc. The first concert will be given toward the end of the present month, the date to be announced later. — Girls leaving London elementary | teaspoonful of pepper. Cook for about [an ‘hour, or until the cabbage is| {tonder. Then add three tablespoonfu's lof flour mixed to a smooth paste with | half a cupful of milk. Cook & few minutes longer and serve. schools go into factories, warehouses and stores rather than kitchens, recent siatistics show, and as a resuit the pro- portion of those who take up domestic work at this time of life is only one- half of wig it is in later years, |in Movieland. They claim they have FEATURES. The Sidewalks 'of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. In our humble opinion nothing pos- sesses quite so much of the blend of military discipline and heroics as foot ball. It is no place for a weak sister. Parents are objecting. less and less to their youths’ engaging in a man’'s game. There is verve and spirit in the game that gives an atmosphere all its own. ‘We refer now, of course, to college foot ball as distinguished from the profes- sional game. ‘We happened to run into a young chap the other day who was a scintila- ting participant at college. During the course of events he cracked a collar- bone, sprained his wrist on six or eight occasions, and in many other ways collected souvenirs. His fame became so great as a gridiron artist that professional men approached him with induce- ments which he was unable to re- sist. However, he no longer played with a will to win or “die in the at- |3 tempt.” It was cold-bloodegoe}zuu;ln- ness pro . In the old days he begged to be permitted to return to the scrimmage even though physically in- capacitated. As a professional he was not so keen for carrying a_bruise or abrasion back to the game. We do not mean to imply that professional foot ball players do not attempt to give the customer his money's worth, but the spirit is somehow gone. P Here is a story from a local attorney. A lawyer who was sometimes forget- ful, having been engaged to plead the cause of an offender, began by saying: “I know the prisoner at the bar, and he bears the character of being a most con- summate and impudent sccundrel.” Here somebody whispered to him that the prisoner was his client, when he im- mediately continued, “But what great and good man ever lived who was not calumniated by mahy of his cotem- poraries.” Not to keep iIn touch with one's HE CRACKED A COLLAR BONE AND SPRAINED HIS WRIST- Coiffure for Straight Hair. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) I am letting my hair grow. It is very straight and will not hold a waterwave longer than half an hour. Will you please suggest a straight coiffure for me? (2) Does a permanent wave harm the hair? If I get a wide wave would it be frizzy? How often must the wave be set and would water-waving combs do iInstead? (3) I have dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a dark complexion. becoming to me? Answer—(1) A center hair combed flat and coiled over each ear makes a pretty coiffure for straight hair. * If you have small, pretty fea- tures and a low forehead you may wear your hair brushed straight back and ar- ranged in a French t behind. Have a single lock of hair in front of each ear. If your forehead is high and your !face long, you may wear bangs and let the lobes of your ears show. (2) If your hair is in a good, healthy condition and if you go to a skillful and conscientious operator, I think you need not fear that your hair will be ruined. Of course, some types of hair take a permanent better than others. Do not get a cheap wave. Frizziness after a permanent wave is often due to lack of grooming. The wave must be pinched and patted |into shape and a pomade used to keep the hair glossy. 'he wave should be set after each shampoo. You can learn to do this yourself. Comb the hair very smooth while it is damp, then - wave it or use combs. (3) Bright red, rust and brick are good colors for you. You may also wear dark shades of brown, blue and green, dull pink, coral, apricot, bronze-green, ecru, deep yellow, deep cream, black with fiu&t trimming. Stubborn Freckles. Dear Miss Leeds: I am only 12 years old and have a tender skin with many freckles on it. I have been using a com- seem to do any good. harm my skin? Will you please send me your HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, October 6.— The voice culture teachers who closed their New York studios and came West, filled with a dream of reaping a golden harvest from the “talkie” films, have discovered that this motion picture hen isn’t going to lay the golden egg. For “talkies” have proved themselves a purely natural art. And anybody who speaks the king's English in a Teasonably clear manner registers in the new cinema medium. Naturalness is the main requirement, and since there is no need to throw the tone, voice instruction proves to be more of a hindrance than a help. Mary Pickford is the banner voice of the “talkie” tests. She speaks in a clear, high, somewhat childish tone. But "talkie” reproduction of the voice lowers the medium greatly, so that a violin would have the tone of a violon- cella. And Mary Pickford's high, clear tones become the ideal voice for “talkie” use. She told me her only sensation was the necessity of remembering that she must not try to elocute or “throw” her voice. The mlcroghnna hung about 18 inches above her head and some 2 feet in front of her, and all she had to do was speak her lines as if to some one directly in front of her. ‘The recently heralded invention per- mitting of the use of substitutes for sound fllms has caused no excitement little or no use for it. Probably the largest studio in the business has 48 contract players. Forty-six of these are qualified to ear at a moment's notice in “talkis Evelyn Brent has made a successful “talkie.” Norma Shearer's voice is ex- cellent. John Gilbert proved himself able to step into “talkies” immediately, his first test measuring up to the re- quirements every way. None of these players has employed the services of an elocution instructor or a voice expert. Instruction seems to defeat the ends of the “talkie.” An exaggeration of articulation, affected by so many teach- ers, renders an unpleasant sibilance. And this dangerous “S” is the one sore point in the present method of “talkie” making. Studios train their artists to avold stressing the “S” sound as much mercial freckle cream, v‘\’l‘i‘ltl it does not | freckle friends wherever they may be is em- barassing at times. The other day, for personal reasons, we called long dis- tance to speak with a friend. At the other end of the wire a woman's voice answered. “Is Mr. Blank home?” we asked. “Why, no,” she replied, appar- entiy puzzled at our words. “When do you expect him?” we ventured. “Mr, Blank passed away a year ago,” she said. We were shocked at the infor- formation and felt guilty that we were the cause perhaps of adding to a bee reaved wife’s sorrow. Washingtonians are fortunate be- cause they do not have to travel grese distances to reach destinations. Unilise Chicago and New York or even some countrysides. one is able to move rapid- ly about without loss of time. This tends to increase social activities where friends are enabled to foregather with out difficulty. * k% The Nation's Capital is occasionally assailed as a city in which ambition is thwarted. This statement is unfair and is refuted by the fact that there is probably no mu- nicipality in the country with a greater percentage of young peopie and old devoting | their time to cul- @ tural improvement. This inciudes, of course, all classes of night and day schools. Night study is partic- ularly here. Schools of art, of music, law, medi- cine are attended by hundreds of pupils who work in the daytime and spend their evenings in study. One has only to stand be- fore the portals of some of our local institutions at night to wonder who first began to wail about the “jazz gen- eration.” Ncne save ambitious youth has a yen to sit in a classroom for three hours after laboring from early morning. Morcover, most of them can- not be convinced that there is not an a‘bundancc of opportunities in this fine city. HUNCREDS ATTEND MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. recipes for freckle bleaches? Is the soap I am using good for the skin? TWELVE-YEAR OLl Answer—I do not think the cream you mention will harm your skin if used according to directions. It is not always possible to remove stubborn freckles from a fair skin. It may be that you are of the type that always has freckles. noxan I shall be very ihd to mail you the recipes if you will write again and in- closs a stamped, sclf-addressed enve- lo‘i)e, ‘You forgot to give your name and address this time. The soap you men- tion is good. LOIS LEEDS. Darkening Freckled Skin. Dear Miss Leeds: My skin is a me- dium shade, but I have freckles. Do you think that I could develop a coat of tan to cover the freckles if I go swim- ming and play tennis in the sun? I can bleach my freckles as I have done before, but I would rather have a dark skin. Would tincture of iodine help? * ANNABELLE. Answer—The type of skin that de- velops freckles does not take an even coat of tan. Your freckles would prob- ably become darker and more numerous. A number of years ago there was a fad for darkening the skin, but girls are not doing it now. It is better to bleach the e would burn your make vou too dark. LOIS LEEDS. les. The skin and it would MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. given a fine contract with Warner Brothers, a cml!lon given over ex- clusively to “ " making. Lois went with a local stock company, and was signed up by a scout who heard her voice and liked its quality. Such directors as Clarence Brown are against any instruction obtained by players outside of that which “talkic” men can give them. Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix— all talk well for the new invention with- out any instruction. Mary Brian was given some lessons in using her voice, but by the “talkie” manager of her studio. Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ral- ston have a small machine of their own voices and practice the unaccented * Fay Wray will talk in her coming picture, “The Haunting Melody.” Emil Jannings was a star of the legitimate in his own country. There is a delay in his “takie”activities, but this is caused, not by any vocal ime- pediment, but by the neoessity of rid- ding Jannings of his German accent. Baclanova is a stage star who will talk in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which is about to begin. Jean Arthur has studied some with voice teachers. Adolphe Menjou has been on the stage. Most amazing of all is Raymond Griffiths, whose voice has been totally unusable for stage work because he cannot speak louder than a whisper. His “talkie” tests have come out ex- cellently, albeit a character voice. There is nothing for the teacher who has equipped a handseme studio in Hollywood to do but study the train schedules. The “talkie” hen has gone on a strike. All her golden cggs are to be kept within the walls of the studios of the motion picture industry. (Copyright 1928, by North American lewspaper Alliance. as possible. This treatment is in direct opposition to the conventional voice culturist’s method. John Barrymore, idol of the stage these many years, is no better in his “talkie” tests than any number of movie stars who have never been before the footlights. Anita Page, one of the younger stars of cinema, studied vocal expression at the University of South- ern California 'l;e'n it looked as though was not giving her. the and nuance of articulation instruction was still based on theater “'3'“"&'"‘»’: 1 has scored onra agel 100 Yet Nmr‘ “Now that all the kids are back in cent in “talkie” making. 15 pur‘:g u; u{mt og 'el.nelu who spe Clearly = an naturally. Wilson is one of the cinemaites to be Lois | to be a dlamond in the rough'’ school, the base ball lot is sure gettin' B (Copyrisht. 1938.) .